Someone commented recently on Tortoise Hiker's shoulder injury, saying he would be hiking again soon because you don't hike with your shoulders. I thought so too until about three months ago when I injured my left shoulder coming down Daisy Mountain near Anthem. I slipped on loose gravel on a steep ...

Sometimes I forget the number of good people in this world, and something as small as a lost trekking pole reminded me of that yesterday. I had given it up for lost. I left it at the small parking lot on the hill at Moeur Park on the 11th, having just finished a loop hike to the Crosscut Canal Pond,...